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| Mark Zuckerberg: |
Zuckerberg says Cambridge Analytica breached Facebook's trust, which caused Facebook to break users' trust, and vows to prevent it from happening again — I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook to review all apps that had extended data access in 2014 and prior, audit suspicious ones, inform users about misuse, revoke permissions of unused apps — Protecting people's information is the most important thing we do at Facebook. What happened with Cambridge Analytica was a breach of Facebook's trust.
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| Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg didn't apologize, explain why the misuse of data wasn't disclosed in 2015, or say whether he would appear before Congress if asked — Mark Zuckerberg today broke his silence on the “Cambridge Analytica situation,” but there were several issues that his post didn't address.| Matthew Yglesias / Vox: |
Zuckerberg and other executives are in denial: Facebook is not a force for good, having helped destroy industries and break societies, and should be shuttered — It's not just about privacy; its core function makes people lonely and sad. — Facebook is enmeshed in another controversy …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Facebook will roll out a tool next month atop News Feed that shows users which apps they've used and how to revoke permissions — - The founder and CEO had reportedly planned to wait until after the company's audit of the alleged mishandling of data before making any sort of comment.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Google is buying Lytro, the imaging startup that uses its light field tech in VR, for about $40M; one source describes deal as an “asset sale” — Last week, Google showed off a new app to display immersive photography in virtual reality, and a multi-camera technique for capturing it …
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
The European Commission proposes a 3% tax on EU revenues of companies with global annual revenues of €750M+, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon — The European Commission wants to see big tech firms pay a 3% tax on some of their revenues. This is a major break from the traditional way of calculating tax based on profits.
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| Jenny Brewer / It's Nice That: |
Netflix unveils its own custom typeface, Netflix Sans, to be used globally; brand design lead says it will save millions of dollars per year in licensing costs — Netflix has unveiled a new custom typeface to be used across the streaming platform's brand identity, developed by the in-house design team …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is working on blockchain-related technology for its cloud business; source says this includes a distributed ledger to verify transactions — Alphabet division developing a distributed digital ledger — Company insiders say cloud is natural home for the technology
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple executive Jimmy Iovine will transition into a consulting role in August and step back from daily involvement with Apple Music — The music executive and Beats co-founder will step back from daily involvement with Apple's streaming-music business
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Google's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, says YouTube will start putting more ads in between music videos to encourage subscriptions to upcoming music service — It's a cultural change for a company that was built on free — YouTube will increase the number of ads that some users …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger adds admin privileges to group chats, letting admins approve new members, and “joinable links” that can be created by anyone — Despite the growing controversy around the Cambridge Analytica data privacy allegations, Facebook is pushing those concerns …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Senate votes 97-2 to advance the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which was initially opposed by tech giants; Trump will now likely sign it into law — The Senate has voted 97-2 to advance the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, a controversial initiative meant to crack down on sex trafficking on the internet.| Raymond Wong / Mashable: |
Privacy bug in iOS lets Siri read out hidden content from third-party app notifications on lock screens — On iOS 11, Apple introduced a new way to protect user privacy by letting you hide the contents of your notifications on your iPhone's lock screen until you unlock the device with Touch ID or Face ID.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
15-year-old hacker exposes vulnerability in popular “tamper-proof” Ledger hardware cryptocurrency wallets that have sold by the millions — Backdoor allows attacker to recover private keys stored on Ledger hardware wallets. — For years, executives at France-based Ledger … | David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at Facebook's 59-acre Willow Village development in Menlo Park, with 1,500 apartments and other amenities, as it follows in Apple and Google's footsteps — In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them?
Tweets: @bendwalsh, @ssstrom, @davethackeray, @williamturton, and @kevinroose
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: Michael Coates, Twitter's chief information security officer since 2015, is leaving to start his own company; interim replacement is Joseph Camilleri — Michael Coates joined Twitter in 2015 — Twitter's chief information security officer is leaving the company, sources familiar with the matter have told The Verge.
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| Simon Shuster / TIME: |
Investigation finds Russian businessmen and senior Kremlin advisers secretly helped Venezuela launch its Petro cryptocurrency, aimed at eroding US sanctions — President Donald Trump may not have realized on Monday that his executive order would step on Russia's toes.
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Amazon's in-home delivery service app Key adds fingerprint authentication support on Android — Amazon's Key in-home delivery service was announced last October and its cameras and smart door locks became available in November. Since then, Amazon has been able to use Key to place … | Reuters: |
Sources and docs detail Kaspersky Lab's plans for a data center in Switzerland, to be completed by early 2020, to handle analysis of files from EU and US users — MOSCOW/TORONTO (Reuters) - Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns … | Salvador Rodriguez / Reuters: |
Slack is building a safety engineering team that will develop methods to help reduce outages; since April 2017, Slack has had 40 days with outages — Collaboration software provider Slack Technologies Inc is building a safety engineering team that will develop methods to help reduce …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces new security features for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite, including new DDoS protections, dashboard, and increased data transparency — The enterprise is one area where Google is committing vast resources in order to gain a foothold in the lucrative market occupied by Amazon and Microsoft.
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